No Prisoners, No MercyHost: Julie Whitefeather & Frances KosacThere comes a time, friends, when your favorite MMO ceases to sparkle, when even new videogames lose their luster, and the computer room becomes a prison; and all that is left are two gamers (who happen to be nuns) with a very large axe to grind. Come join Julie Whitefeather and Frances Kosac as they go to War - and along the way discuss the events of the week in the MMO industry.

Welcome to route 66! This was a week of bad computers, Everquest 2 players getting slapped down and the great wall of SOE going up. Along the way we find out why you can start sending your hate mail to Mickey Rat, and why Senator Al Franken is concerned about two companies that have been stomping around yelling Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum (we agree). We fill out the rest of the show with talk of trailers and why Ed Norton is out and Karl Urban is in.

'Net Net' by ChecksixSubmitted on 2010-08-06 01:34:46 CSTI love how the people that are opposed to net neutrality frame the argument as "goverment" sticking their nose in where it doesn't belong. In fact, greedy bastards like viacom and the like are pushing hard for the government to stay out so that they can fleece us for every little web site we might want to go to!

I'm all for the government staying out of my life but I'm also for being protected from those mega corporations who would fleece me by my government.

Senator Frankin has it right: Net Neutrality is something we should all care about and work hard to enforce.

'Ba, Ba, Ba, Blacksheep' by JulieSubmitted on 2010-08-06 14:26:13 CST@ Checksix I have read arguments by broadband providers (and their supporters in the senate) that run something like this: If we are not allowed to charge the rates we want then we will not be able to expand to meet the goal that the President has set for universal broadband access. Of course no one mentions the second and logical extension is that if their is universl access than broadband providers can fleece everyone and not just urban areas.

I had read about the deal that Google brokered with Verizon outside the FCC, but I had not read the reaction of the FCC in the LaTimes - thanks for the note.

As far as Senator Frankin is concerned, he is correct. He calls Net Neutrality "The First Amendment issue of our times."